Psychiatric features of individuals with problematic internet use.

By N. Shapira, Toby D. Goldsmith, P. Keck, U. Khosla, S. McElroy. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Development and Psychometric Properties of the Problematic Internet use Questionnaire (2005, background): “The single exception to this trend was Widyanto and McMurran (2004) who reported on the psychometric properties of Young's (1999) 20-item IAT.”
Mobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults - a prospective cohort study (2011, background): “Internet addiction has been proposed as a specific psychiatric illness [14]; however, this form of problematic Internet use could also be considered to share elements with impulse control disorders and be related to the specific activities done on the Internet (such as gambling) rather than the Inte”
The Role of Sexual Compulsivity, Impulsivity, and Experiential Avoidance in Internet Pornography Use (2012, result): “This is consistent with previous research (Davis et al., 2002; Shapira et al., 2000) and with the Mick and Hollander (2006) model of sexual compulsivity, which proposes sexual compulsivity to be related to impulsivity and compulsivity.”
A Social Skill Account of Problematic Internet Use (2005, background): “Indeed, a number of researchers have maintained that PIU primarily involves compulsive Internet use (for a review, see Beard & Wolf, 2001; see also Caplan, 2003; Davis, 2001; Griffiths, 2000; Shapira et al., 2000; Young, 1998; Young & Rogers, 1998).”
An international consensus for assessing internet gaming disorder using the new DSM-5 approach. (2014, methodology): “Some reports used criteria that parallel those for substance use disorders [30], others used versions of DSM-IV pathological gambling criteria [23,31] and still others adapted impulse control or other criteria [22,32,33].”
Validation of a New Scale for Measuring Problematic Internet Use: Implications for Pre-employment Screening (2002, neutral): “6 Other features of problematic Internet use independently described in the literature include impulsivity, 17 loneliness, 5,18 low self-esteem, 19 depression, 20 social anxiety, 21 and social disinhibition.”
Problematic Internet use or Internet addiction? (2007, background): “They have also noted that Internet addiction shares a number of common elements with impulse control disorders (Beard & Wolf, 2001; Shapira et al., 2000; Treuer et al., 2001), and some researchers have proposed that problematic use of the Internet should be viewed as such a disorder; for example,…”